User name change?

[Muffins782]

Hi Admin

I just had to do a password reset and when I logged in under my usual user name, it wouldn?t work. It seems like a 2 has been added to the end. Now my messages are gone, but my posts under muffins78 are there, but I?m posting as muffins782 now. It?s very strange!!

Thanks :)

[ianr]

That's rather similar to what was reported here https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?12,1876276, even down to the fact that your muffins78 account still seems live: https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/profile.php?32,1884.

I don't know the outcome of that case; I think the user may have simply opened a new account. But I'd be interested to know what happens if you logout, go to the login page, and try reporting a lost password for muffins78.

[Muffins782]

Hi - it was a lost password request for muffins78 and the email generated from the site had a new username essentially!! So I can?t get into old account etc.. Random!! :)

[ianr]

OK, understood now. I've just tried, unsuccessfully, to replicate the phenomenon, but end up with the same username with the automated procedure. I wouldn't call your case random, just so-far unexplained.

Is there any possibility that the address you gave was not the one registered with your muffins78 account? If that was the case the system wouldn't have immediately told you it was emailing you a new password. And there's an outside possibility -- I'm not familiar with the system -- that it might then have been forwarded to an admin for possible processing. That, anyway, is the the only reason I can think of for any human intervention that might have changed the username.

[Muffins782]

Thanks Ianr, much appreciated. I tried to use my work phone just now to log on, deliberately not using these details, but the normal muffins78. Like the first time, an instant email was generated with the username ?2? and a new password.

I think it?s a challenge for admin :) I appreciate you trying to help me.

[muffins78]

Admin - it?s all sorted now :) and a big thanks to IanR for all his help :)